Professor Donald Rubin

Donald B. Rubin graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), receiving his Master’s degree in computer science in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Statistics in 1970 from Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts). He was Professor of Statistics at Harvard University since 1983 and Department Chair from 1985 to 1994 and from 2000 to 2004, until he retired in 2018.

Rubin received an honorary doctoral degree from the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg (Germany) and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and held the Honorary Belle van Zuylen Chair in the Department of Methodology and Statistics at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) from 2012 to 2013. He has four joint patents, and has made important contributions to statistical theory and methodology.

Donald B. Rubin was appointed as IAB Research Fellow in 2005.

His research interests focus on causal inference in experiments and observational studies; inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and in problems of missing data; application of Bayesian and empirical Bayesian techniques; and developing and applying statistical models to data in a variety of scientific disciplines.

Donald B. Rubin has published his research in numerous major journals, such as the Annals of Statistics, the Annals of Applied Statistics, Statistics in Medicine, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Biometrics.